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Environment and Development / Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento (multi-lingua)

In today's episode, Casey, Maria, and Naomi talk to conservative climate activists about why they support carbon pricing policy. We'll hear from former Congressman Bob Inglis (RepublicEN.org), Kiera O'Brien (Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends), former Congressman Carlos Curbelo, and Jerry Taylor (Niskanen Center). Read more at pricingnature.substack.com

5. The Conservative Case for Carbon Pricing

The traditional approaches to development in academic or policy circles have not coped, by and large, with the transformation of the processes of development under the conditions of multidimensional globalization, technological change, multiculturalism, and ecological consciousness. In this public lecture Manuel Castells explores a reconceptualisation of development in the global information age.

Manuel Castells Reconceptualising Development in the Global Information Age

Elva Arrieta, Fernando Illanes, M. Teresa Larrea, Diego Mory y Vanity Torres

Resumen "La Sociedad Red" de Manuel Castells

Speaker(s): Professor Lord Giddens | Professor Lord Giddens published The Politics of Climate Change in 2007and is currently preparing a new edition for publication in 2015. In this lecture he will consider how much progress has been made since the work was first published in containing global warming - arguably one of the greatest threats to a stable future for humanity. Anthony Giddens is a former director of LSE and a Member of the House of Lords. Credits: Tom Sturdy (Audio Post-Production), LSE AV Services (Audio Recording).

The Politics of Climate Change 2014: what cause for hope? [Audio]

Steven Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the
director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of physics and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley. He was previously at Stanford and Bell Laboratories. At Stanford, he helped start Bio-X, a multidisciplinary initiative linking the physical and biological sciences with engineering and medicine. In 2009 Prof. Chu was appointed the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. Prof. Chu's first lecture gives a brief history of how scientific revolutions build on previous scientific revolutions, focusing on physics from Ptolemy to Copernicus, Kepler and Newton, and on to today’s counter-intuitive physical theories. Jul 29, 2010

The Epistemology of Physics and Scientific Revolutions

Transforming Curitiba from the "greenest city on earth" to an ecocity. Urban ecology, permaculture and community projects for bottom up eco & social change. 

"Ecocity Group Curitiba" founder Duncan Crowley is currently doing a 2 year Masters Research programme in the public university UFPR, in MADE (Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento / Environment and Developement). His research area is: "From the village to the city: Confronting climate change by creating ecocities ". 

The Epistemology of Physics and Scientific Revolutions

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